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And as for the pigments, well, I'll use them some of these days; and to show that I'm in earnest, I'll get Dick here to prepare a canvas." Dick was put to this menial task forthwith, the Admiral not even watching how he did, but quite occupied with another grog and a pleasant vein of talk. Dick was left hobbled by the canvas, and was subjected to Van Tromp for about an hour.
Leaving seventeen vessels to blockade Dunkirk, Tromp with the remaining twelve advanced to meet the enemy's fleet on its arrival. It was soon seen entering the Straits of Dover to the number of sixty-seven sail, and having two thousand troops. Being joined by De Witt with four more ships, Tromp with his small force made a resolute attack upon the enemy.
In this house would the gallant Van Home and his compeers hold frequent councils of war, as to the possibility of re-conquering the province from the British; and here would they sit for hours, nay, days, together smoking their pipes and keeping watch upon the growing city of New-York; groaning in spirit whenever they saw a new house erected or ship launched, and persuading themselves that Admiral Van Tromp would one day or other arrive to sweep out the invaders with the broom which he carried at his mast-head.
Blake insisted that Tromp, instead of complying, fired a broadside at his vessel; Tromp stated that a second and a third bullet were sent promptly from the British ship while he was preparing to obey the admiral's claim. The discharge of the first broadside is also a matter of contradiction, and of course of doubt.
'Then why do you call yourself one, sir? 'I have to ask your pardon, I do not, says Van Tromp, as grand as the Pope. But nothing was of avail against the Squire. 'You sail under false colours from beginning to end, he said. 'Your very house was taken under a sham name. 'It is not my house. I am my daughter's guest, replied the Admiral. 'If it WERE my house
By the time we had done that it was quite dark, and we missed them altogether and sailed south, thinking Van Tromp had gone that way; but, instead, he had sailed north, and in the morning we found he had picked up De Ruyter's fleet, and was ready to fight.
All I've got to do, in the big world, is to deliver the goods. And I'm going to deliver the goods!" said Peter. But Emma Campbell put her grizzled head on the dining-room table and began to cry. "I nussed you w'en you had de croup en de colic. I used to tromp up en down dis same no' wid you 'crost my shoulder.
"She shall go and see my friend Dick. Run and get ready, Esther." Esther obeyed. "She has not has not run away again?" inquired Mr. Naseby, as soon as she was gone. "No," said Van Tromp, "not again. She is a devilish odd girl, though, mind you that." "But I cannot stomach the man with the carbuncles," thought the Squire.
As we pressed on, we could see the other English war ships at length got among them, and several ran up to us with the intention, it was seen, of yielding, and thereby delaying us in our pursuit of Van Tromp. "We are not to be delayed by such a device," exclaimed the admiral. "Make the signal, Bracewell, to all the ships of war to press on regardless of the traders.
He relinquished her hand, still looking at her, and she turned to leave the room. "Why, what in fortune's name is the meaning of all this?" cried Van Tromp. "Esther, come back!" "Let her go," said Dick, and he watched her disappear with strangely mingled feelings.
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